Who came into his fortune...

JOHN WYATT GREGG ALLERTON, 86,

HONOLULU — JOHN WYATT GREGG ALLERTON, 86, who came into his fortune by being adopted by the heir to a Chicago cattle fortune, died Thursday.

Lands owned by the Allerton family on the island of Kauai provided scenery for the television series Fantasy Island and for films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Thorn Birds.

Born as John Wyatt Gregg, Allerton met and was adopted by Robert Allerton while studying architecture at the University of Illinois in the 1930s. In 1937, the two bought large parcels of land on Kauai for a botanical garden.